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GEORGE R. MALBY 

( Late a Representative from New York) 

MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 

DELIVERED IN THE 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

OF THE UNITED STATES 

SIXTY-SECOND CONGRESS 



Proceedings in the House Proceedings in the Senate 

January 26, 1913 July 6, 1912 



PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF 
THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING 




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TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Page. 

Proceedings in the House 5 

Prayers by Rev. Henry X. Couden, D. D 5, 8 

Memorial addresses by — 

Mr. Taylor, of Ohio 11 

Mr. Merritt, of Xew York 15 

Mr. Talcott, of New York 19 

Mr. Fairchild, of New York 20 

Mr. Fitzgerald, of New York 23 

Proceedings in the Senate 27 

Prayer by Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, D. D 27 

Resolutions adopted 28 

Public memorial services at Ogdensburg, N. Y ' 31 

Memorial addresses by — 

Mr. Thomas Spratt 32 

Judge John M. Kellogg 38 

Maj. William H. Daniels 40 

Mr. Fred J. Gray 42 

Mr. E. C. Stewart 45 

Mr. M. R. Sackett 46 

. Mr. E. A. Merritt, jr 50 

Rev. A. M. Wight 52 

Col. Archie E. Baxter 54 

Memorial resolution -, — 55 



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DEATH OF HON. GEORGE R. MALBY 



Proceedings in the House of Representatives 

Saturday, July 6, 1912. 
The House met at 12 o'clock noon. 

The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D.. offered the 
following prayer: 

Our Father in heaven, once more in the dispensation of 
Thy providence our hearts are bowed in sorrow and 
grief. Surely in " the midst of life we are in death." We 
know not the moment when the summons shall come, but 
with perfect faith and confidence in Thee who doeth all 
things well, help us to do the work Thou hast given us to 
do faithfully, conscientiously; going forward to meet the 
shadowy future with brave and manly hearts. Comfort 
us, the bereaved wife and children, in the blessed hope 
of the immortality of the soul. In the name of Him who 
said, " I am the resurrection and the life; whosoever liveth 
and believeth in me shall never die." Amen. 

Mr. Payne. Mr. Speaker, it becomes my sad duty to an- 
nounce to the House the death of the Hon. George R. 
Malby, one of my colleagues, which occurred in the city 
of New York yesterday evening. I will state that the 
funeral of the deceased will take place at his late home 
at Ogdensburg, on Tuesday, at 2 o'clock. At a future day 
I shall ask the House to set aside a time that Members may 
pay tribute to the life, character, and services of the de- 
ceased. I now offer the following resolutions, which I 
send to the Clerk's desk. 



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The Speaker. The Clerk will report the resolutions. 
The Clerk read as follows: 

House resolution 596 

Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of 
the death of Hon. George R. Malby, a Representative from the 
State of New York. 

Resolved, That a committee of 15 Members of the House, with 
such Members of the Senate as may be joined, be appointed to 
attend the funeral. 

Resolved, That the Sergeant at Arms of the House be authorized 
and directed to take such steps as may be necessary for carrying 
out the provisions of these resolutions, and that the necessary ex- 
pense in connection therewith be paid out of the contingent fund 
of the House. 

Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
Senate and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased. 

The resolutions were agreed to. 

The Speaker announced the appointment of the fol- 
lowing committee: 

Mr. Fitzgerald, Mr. D wight, Mr. Taylor of Ohio, Mr. 
Sulzer, Mr. Michael E. Driscoll, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Smith 
of New York, Mr. Mott, Mr. Robinson, Mr. De Forest, Mr. 
Pepper, Mr. Wedemeyer, Mr. Greene of Massachusetts, 
Mr. Sloan, and Mr. J. M. C. Smith. 

The Speaker. The Clerk will read the additional resolu- 
tion. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

Resolved, That as a further mark of respect, this House do now 
adjourn. 

The resolution was agreed to; accordingly (at 12 o'clock 
and 18 minutes p. m.) the House adjourned until Monday, 
July 8, 1912. at 12 o'clock noon. 



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Monday, July 8, 1912. 
A message from the Senate, by Mr. Crockett, one of its 
clerks, announced that the Senate had passed the follow- 
ing resolutions: 

Resolved, That the Senate has heard with deep sensibility the 
announcement of the death of Hon. George R. Malby, late a Rep- 
resentative from the State of New York. 

Resolved, That a committee of nine Senators be appointed by 
the President pro tempore to join the committee appointed on the 
part of the House of Representatives to take order for superin- 
tending the funeral of the deceased. 

Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to 
the House of Representatives and transmit a copy thereof to the 
family of the deceased. 

In compliance with the foregoing resolutions the Presi- 
dent pro tempore appointed under the second resolution 
as the committee on the part of the Senate Mr. Root, Mr. 
O'Gorman, Mr. Burnham, Mr. Jones, Mr. Oliver, Mr. 
Bacon, Mr. Bryan, Mr. Thornton, and Mr. Martine of New 
Jersey. 



Thursday, January 16, 1913. 

Mr. Merritt. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent for 
the present consideration of the order which I send to the 
Clerk's desk. 

The Speaker. The gentleman from New York asks 
unanimous consent for the present consideration of a 
resolution which the Clerk will report. 

The Clerk read as follows : 

Ordered, That Sunday, January 26, 1913, at 12 o'clock noon, be 
set apart for addresses on the life, character, and public services 
of Hon. George R. Malby, late a Representative from the State 
of New York. 



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The Speaker. Is there objection? 
There was no objection. 

Sunday, January 26, 1913. 

The House met at 12 o'clock noon and was called to 
order by the Speaker pro tempore, Mr. Fitzgerald. 

The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., offered the 
following prayer: 

Our Father in heaven, we realize that there are prob- 
lems of life which have not been solved by reason or the 
subtle methods of logic. 

But we bless Thee for those qualities of soul — faith, 
hope, and love — which solve all doubt, all fear in an in- 
finite Father who has never failed His children. We are 
here to-day because Thou hast taken from us a servant of 
the people. 

Warm in his friendships, strong in his convictions, 
earnest in his endeavors to fulfill the obligations of life 
in his home, his State, and Nation. 

There are nettles everywhere, 

But smooth green grasses are more common still; 

The blue of heaven is larger than the cloud. 

Strengthen our faith, quicken our hopes, glorify our 
love, that we, with his dear ones, may go forward with- 
out fear to the larger life which waits on Thy children, 
where all questions will be solved, doubts dissipated, and 
harmony prevail in every heart. For Thine is the king- 
dom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. 

The Speaker pro tempore. The Clerk will cause the 
Journal of the proceedings of yesterday to be read. 

Mr. Mehritt. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent 
thai tin- reading of the Journal be dispensed with. 



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The Speaker pro tempore. The gentleman from New 
Yorks asks unanimous consent to dispense with the read- 
ing of the Journal. Is there objection? [After a pause.] 
The Chair hears none, and it is so ordered. Without 
objection, the Journal will stand approved. [After a 
pause.] The Chair hears no objection. The Clerk will 
read the special order for to-day. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

Ordered, That Sunday, January 26, 1913, at 12 o'clock m., be 
set apart for addresses upon the life, character, and public serv- 
ices of Hon. George R. Malby, late a Representative from the 
State of New York. 

Mr. Merritt. Mr. Speaker, I offer the following resolu- 
tions. 

The Speaker pro tempore. The Clerk will report the 
resolutions. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

House resolution 795 

Resolved, That the business of the House be now suspended, 
that opportunity may be given for tributes to the memory of 
Hon. George R. Malby, late a Member of this House from the 
State of New York. 

Resolved, That as a special mark of respect to the memory of 
the deceased and in recognition of his distinguished public 
career the House, at the conclusion of these exercises, shall stand 
adjourned. 

Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
Senate. 

Resolved, That the Clerk send a copy of these resolutions to the 
family of the deceased. 

The question was taken, and the resolutions were 
unanimously agreed to. 



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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 



Address of Mr. Taylor, of Ohio 

Mr. Speaker: It is not my purpose to deliver a studied 
eulogy on our lamented colleague, but rather to pay a 
heartfelt tribute to one who was my very dear, very close 
friend. My acquaintance with Mr. Malby did not extend 
over a long period of years. In fact, I had no personal 
acquaintance with him until his arrival in Washington 
at the opening of the Sixtieth Congress. I knew him 
by reputation and was proud when he chose to number 
me among his friends. Our acquaintance at once ripened 
into a genuine and lasting friendship and affection, which 
continued without a cloud until his sudden and untimely 
departure last July. 

I can not say, and I will not say 

That he is dead — he is just away. 

With a cheery smile and wave of the hand, 

He has wandered into an unknown land, 

And left us dreaming how very fair 

It needs must be since he lingers there. 

Surely these lines of James Whitcomb Riley must have 
been written especially for dear Uncle George. There is 
no living person but remembers him in the best of health 
and spirits. He left Washington early in July with kindly 
wishes and good-byes for everyone and went to New York. 
He greeted all that he met there jovially and pleasantly, 
said that he was tired of the long drawn-out session and 
warm weather, and was so very glad that he was going 
home. He knew that he would be all right when he once 



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more reached his own town of Ogdensburg and breathed 
the invigorating air of his native country, his beautiful 
land of the St. Lawrence River. No man ever lived that 
was more appreciative, more full of sentiment in regard 
to his own people, his wife, his lads, as he called them, 
and his well-beloved home. 

Mr. Malby was a real American, of Scotch descent, and 
justly proud of his lineage. Many are the reminiscences 
and interesting tales that he has related to me about his 
people and the early days of his life. He had a wonder- 
ful sense of humor and a way of expressing things with 
a chuckle all his own. It was my great privilege to have 
been his traveling companion in the early days of our 
friendship, and, as such, his continued courtesy and kind- 
liness made our association a more than happy one. I 
shared his stateroom all the way to Panama and back 
on one occasion and enjoyed every minute of it. His 
friendship to me is one of the brightest spots in my life, 
and I can not in words express how greatly I miss him 
now. " The heart can feel what the lips can not utter." 
While he was several years my senior and had accom- 
plished much, he was never too busy or too much occu- 
pied with his own affairs to pause willingly and cheer- 
fully and listen to my minor trials and tribulations and 
help me all he could. 

I wish to acknowledge my deep sense of gratitude and 
obligation to him for the always wise counsel and advice 
he affectionately imparted. He was a man of sterling 
qualities and noble impulses, made innumerable friends 
and always kept them. He was as true as steel. He had 
no devious ways, he was straight from the shoulder, 
always steadfast and sincere, clear and forceful, brusque 
sometimes to almost sternness, but underlying all was one 



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of the sweetest, most affectionate natures God ever gave 
to man. 

Just to exchange morning greetings with him always 
helped me out a lot — sort of seemed to make the whole 
world brighter, to sweeten things and make them more 
endurable. He was most unostentatious, never aspiring 
to the limelight of display of any kind. When he spoke 
in the House it was always because he was either for or 
against a measure, not for oratorical effect. He was no 
grandstand player. He was direct and resolute. All who 
came in contact with him were at once impressed with his 
earnest manner, his unflinching honesty, and fearless de- 
fense of what he considered right. When he believed in 
a principle, he believed in it absolutely. He never com- 
promised. His good Presbyterian faith and conscience 
always pointed the way, and when he once espoused a 
cause he never deserted it. When once convinced that a 
thing was right, he stood firm as adamant. His party 
faith was a part of his creed. He was a most unusual 
man, and it required an intimate knowledge of him to 
really appreciate him. His friendship and fidelity made 
me love him ; to have been so closely allied with him these 
few short years, I count a priceless heritage. 

He now sleeps quietly beneath the sod of his native 
State, still living in the hearts and minds of all who knew 
him. Their respect and confidence and love were his 
during his entire career. They revere him in death, and 
can say with truth, " Here lies a man who loved his fel- 
lows." The mysteries of God are unfathomable. The 
untimely cutting down of this man so dear to us is hard 
to reconcile. His loss seems unpayable, irreparable. Let 
consolation be our antidote for grief. He is home, while 
we are still upon our stumbling journey, and though his 
voice is forever stilled and no more in this life will we 



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feel his presence, somewhere he will wait for us, some day 
we will join him. 

O Lord of Light, steep thus our souls in Thee, 
That when the daylight trembles into shade, 

And falls Thy silence of mortality, 

And all is done, we shall not be afraid, 

But pass from light to light, from earth's dull gleam, 

Into Thy very heart and heaven of our dream. 

— Gildey. 



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Address of Mr. Merritt, of New York 

Mr. Speaker: It is with a great deal of hesitation that 
I undertake to present to this House something of the 
career and services of the late George R. Malby, my pred- 
ecessor in this body. Mr. Malby was born in the town of 
Canton, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., September 16, 1857, 
and passed away in the city of New York on the 5th of 
July, 1912, being at that time 55 years of age. His career 
in this House and the services which he rendered here 
were a part only of a long life of public service. It was 
the expansion and the flower, perhaps, of the labors 
which he had performed in his own State as a representa- 
tive in the legislature of that State of a part of the con- 
gressional district which he here represented. He was 
educated at St. Lawrence University; he studied law and 
practiced that profession in the city of Ogdensburg, and 
in 1890 he entered the Legislature of the State of New 
York as an assemblyman, succeeding the Hon. N. M. Cur- 
tis, who was for many years a distinguished Member of 
this body. During the few years in which he was a 
member of the lower house of our State legislature he 
occupied the various positions of leader of his party, 
chairman of important committees, and speaker of that 
body. After five years of service in the assembly of the 
State he was elected to the State senate, and continuously 
represented his senatorial district there until he was 
chosen a Representative in Congress for the twenty-sixth 
district of New York. During the years in which Mr. 
Malby was a member of the State legislature the State of 
New York went through a condition of transition in its 
business affairs. It grew from small to great things. He 

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was identified with the labors of the bodies of which he 
was a member for 16 years, and in a great part was re- 
sponsible for the policies there inaugurated and for the 
earning out of those policies. He was responsible for 
the institution of the great college of agriculture at Cor- 
nell in so far as it grew to what it now is — a great insti- 
tution of learning. It was by reason of his deep interest 
in the subject, having been born a farmer's boy, that he 
had said to me and had said to others that when the time 
came, if he had the power to do something for the farm- 
ing interests which would be far-reaching, which would 
help to elevate and lift and enlarge the scope, interest, 
power, and value of the industry of agriculture, he should 
do it; and in the course of his legislative career the 
opportunity came, and, perhaps almost by himself, he 
succeeded in establishing on a firm foundation that great- 
est institution of its sort in America or in the world. 

During those years, Mr. Speaker, the State of New 
York, in its financial development, was substituting a sys- 
tem of indirect for direct taxation, and during those years 
Mr. Malby gave his time unsparingly and with great effect 
to assisting and developing that system in our State. It 
was appreciated by the people, it was appreciated by the 
legislature, and he grew before he left the senate of our 
State to be the predominant personage in that body, the 
one man, I think, in the whole legislature in his last term 
who was consulted on every important topic and without 
whose advice nothing serious was undertaken. That was 
a preparation for service to his district, to his State, and 
to the people of the United States which qualified him 
beyond any man we ever sent from our locality, and I 
believe fairly beyond any man whom the State of New 
York has sent to the Congress of the United States in 
many years. 



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Address of Mr. Merritt, of New York 

You are familiar with his position in this House. We 
have believed that he had made extraordinary progress 
in influence and power in the comparatively few years 
that he had been a Member of the House of Representa- 
tives. He had the confidence, I believe, of the leaders of 
this House on both sides. He had the respect, he had the 
affection of every man who knew him. His death was a 
tremendous shock to the community from which I come. 
No public man in my time has passed away and left be- 
hind such deep regret, so much of sadness, so much of a 
feeling of personal loss, as was felt when we heard that 
Mr. Malby had passed away. He was the friend of all 
his people; he was consulted in a thousand ways. Not 
only was his position at the bar a distinguished one, but 
in the long years of public service he had rendered to 
thousands of people personal service, personal kindness, 
acts of thoughtfulness and consideration, acts rendered 
without a thought of a reward, of a return of favor, acts 
which came from his great heart and great brain, and 
splendid character and disposition, which had endeared 
him to our people as no other man has ever been en- 
deared, so far as the records of our country go. And 
when I say " our country," I mean that northern section 
of the State of New York, which, to those who have been 
born and brought up there, is the dearest spot on earth. 

It is very hard to be reconciled to such bereavements, 
particularly when they have a personal touch and come 
close to one. Numbers of men have associated with Mr. 
MalbjY, not only in this body, but in the other bodies to 
which he had at times belonged, and have had the same 
feeling toward him that I am trying to express here — con- 
fidence, respect, and love. 

Death comes to all. It is the most natural thing in the 
world. It is the thing easiest to understand in a way. 
We grieve, we must grieve, we ought to grieve, but we 

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must bear our bereavements, our disappointments, and 
our griefs, as Christian men. I believe that if Mr. Malby 
had been spared, all the service and experience which 
he had gone through as a public servant would have 
proven but the beginning, the foundation of more dis- 
tinguished work and of greater usefulness. I know that 
he appreciated the opportunities of office from that stand- 
point, which is a good, sound American standpoint. It 
was the opportunity to serve and not to receive the idle 
honor of the place. 

As the gentleman who preceded me has said, he never 
made a speech for oratorical effect, he never thought any- 
thing of personal advantage. According to his lights, 
according to his conscience and his judgment, he always 
did what he regarded as his full duty as a public servant. 
It will be many years before such a man will represent 
our people, combining, as he did, the qualities of states- 
man, public man, good citizen, and loyal friend. 

He will not be forgotten among those who have known 
him as we knew him. Thousands will possess the same 
feeling as was expressed by Burns in his " Ode to Glen- 
cairn ": 

The bridegroom may forget the bride 

Was made his wedded wife yestreen; 
The monarch may forget the crown 

That on his head an hour has been; 
The mother may forget the bairn 

That smiles sae sweetly on her knee; 
But I Ml remember thee, Glencairn, 

And a' thai thou has done for me! 

[Mr. Merritt at this point assumed the chair as Speaker 
pro tempore.] 



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Address of Mr. Talcott, of New York 

Mr. Speaker: The death of Mr. Malby was so sudden 
and unexpected that it was a great shock to each one of 
us. It was one of the many instances that have occurred 
during this Congress to remind us of the uncertain tenure 
of human life. 

Mr. Malby had a distinguished career in the Legislature 
of New York before he came to Washington as a Repre- 
sentative in Congress. I first met him at Albany when 
he was the leader of his party in the Senate of the State 
of New York, and it is not overstating the fact to say that 
few men at that time possessed a greater influence than 
he in the public affairs of the State. 

I did not have the privilege of intimate personal ac- 
quaintance with him, but I know the value of his service 
here and the efficient work which he performed so ably 
and so well as a Member of this body. 

He was true to the people whom he represented; he 
was loyal to their interests; he was uncompromising in 
his convictions of public duty. The death of a man of 
such wide experience, strength of mind, and decision of 
character can not but be a positive and serious loss to 
his district, to his State, and to the membership of this 
House. 



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Address of Mr. Fairchild, of New York 

Mr. Speaker: I have been deeply impressed with what 
I have listened to here to-day at this special session of the 
Members of the House of Representatives, called for the 
purpose of doing honor to the memory of our late brother, 
Congressman George R. Malby. I have hesitated to take 
part in these services, not because I do not believe in the 
custom which is responsible for this gathering, not be- 
cause I am not desirous of paying tribute to Congressman 
Malby's worth as a man, as a friend, as a citizen, and as a 
public servant, but because I feel utterly incapable of 
portraying him as I really knew him, and because I 
realize that I lack the power of expression to correctly 
let the public see, as I should like to have it see, the finer, 
nobler, grander qualities that made such a deep impress 
upon me. It is one thing to know a man and to recognize 
his splendid attributes, but it is another thing to have the 
ability that shall make others see as you yourself have 
seen. Just as we admire in a beautiful picture the genius 
of the artist and yet are powerless to reproduce the paint- 
ing, so sometimes in a friend we may see noble qualities, 
qualities that attract and make everlasting impress, quali- 
ties that arouse great admiration and deep regard, and 
yet be unable to portray those qualities to our own satis- 
faction. It is because I feel that I can not do Congress- 
man Malby justice that I must be content to say that, 
while there are others here to-day who knew him far 
better than I. others who had greater opportunity to meas- 
ure his public usefulness, I do not believe he had in all 
the world a friend — and this is a strong statement, be- 
cause I know the standard of his friendships— who placed 



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a higher estimate upon his value to the country that he 
was serving so earnestly, so ably, and so faithfully, or 
who held him in kindlier regard. 

New York has sent to the Congress of the United States 
many men of great note. It has sent men who have 
achieved reputations which will last as long as fame shall 
last, but among all its list of distinguished men it will be 
hard to find any who by reason of natural fitness, of 
patriotic motive, and of real unassuming ability are better 
entitled to a wreath of commendation than the Hon. 
George R. Malby. 

Congressman Malby and I came to Congress at the 
same time. I had known him before coming here be- 
cause of his long service at Albany, but I had seen but 
little of him. We located in the same hotel in Washing- 
ton, and as I gradually became better acquainted with 
him I began to recognize his ability, his earnestness, his 
fairness, and his kindly, generous nature, a nature slow 
to think ill and tempered always with a mantle of charity 
broad enough for all humanity. At the Chicago conven- 
tion, where we were fellow delegates, I saw him fre- 
quently. I congratulated him upon his apparent recovery 
from a long illness in Washington, and looked forward 
with great pleasure to seeing him here again this winter. 
But it was willed otherwise. The Grim Reaper beckoned 
our friend in the very height of his usefulness, and he 
went away, and when he went sorrow came not only to 
his wife and to all his family but to all who knew his 
bigness of soul and heart and mind. 

New York mourns the loss of a citizen who honored her 
in State and national life. Congressman Malby's mem- 
ory will be cherished not only by all friends and associates 
at the National Capital but by all who knew him, and 



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particularly by the people of his home city and home 
county, whom he loved better than all the world beside. 

Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increasel) 
Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, 
And saw, within the moonlight in his room, 
Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, 
An angel writing in a book of gold: 
Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, 
And to the Presence in the room he said, 

" What writest thou? " The vision raised its head, 
And with a look made of all sweet accord, 
Answered, " The names of those who love the Lord." 

" And is mine one? " said Abou. " Nay, not so," 
Replied the angel. Abou spake more low, 
But cheerily still, and said, " I pray thee, then, 
Write me as one that loves his fellow men." 
The angel wrote and vanished. The next night 
It came again with a great awakening light, 
And showed the names whom love of God had blessed, 
And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest. 



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Address of Mr. Fitzgerald, of New York 

Mr. Speaker: To-day we meet to pay a tribute to the 
memory of a great man. He was great in the estimation 
of those who knew his capacity, his ability, his real worth. 
He was not a spectacular man; he was modest. He did 
not indulge in the modern method of advertising those 
qualifications that fitted him so preeminently for the 
public service. 

He came to this House not as a novice, but as a man 
well endowed and well equipped for the public service. 
Entering public life in the State of New York the year 
I left school, he served in the two houses of the legisla- 
ture during a period when really great men participated 
in the public affairs. Very early in his career he became 
the leader of his party in the lower house of the State 
legislature, later served as speaker, and subsequently 
entered the State senate. In both of those bodies he 
quickly took a commanding position. During the last 
four years of his service in the Senate of New York he 
was chairman of the finance committee, a position of 
power and of influence, and one requiring comprehen- 
sive knowledge and sound discretion. Those who are 
familiar with the history of the State of New York during 
the period in which Mr. Malby served the State in the 
legislature will recall the names of some of the giants in 
intellect, in ability, and commanding force with whom he 
served, such men as Ellsworth, Stranahan, Brackett, 
White, Raines, Grady, Coggeshal, McCarren. All of 
them rank high in the opinion of those who appreciate 
great natural force, added to learning, industry, ex- 



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traordinary capacity, and dominant will power to enact 
legislation according to their convictions. When Mr. 
Malby entered the House of Representatives, he came 
here after a service to the State that well fitted and 
equipped him for the arduous duties incident to service 
in this body. 

I had not the pleasure of a personal acquaintance with 
him prior to his entrance into this body. I had fre- 
quently seen him in public life, and I was thoroughly fa- 
miliar with his great work, but I had never met him. 
Early in his service in the House he was assigned to the 
committee of which I am now the chairman — the Com- 
mittee on Appropriations. I soon marveled at the very 
wide information which he had accumulated upon almost 
every question affecting the public service. I quickly 
learned to respect his sound and cautious judgment and 
his warm-hearted and liberal nature. The late James 
G. Rlaine, in his matchless eulogy on the late President 
Garfield, more accurately than anyone else pictured the 
manner in which men are estimated in this House. In 
that beautiful oration he said: 

There is no test of a man's ability in any department of public 
life more severe than service in the House of Representatives; 
there is no place where so little deference is paid to reputation 
previously acquired or to eminence won outside; no place where 
so little consideration is shown for the feelings or the failures of 
beginners. What a man gains in the House he gains by sheer 
force of his own character, and if he loses and falls back he must 
expect no mercy and will receive no sympathy. It is a field in 
which the survival of the strongest is the recognized rule, and 
where no pretense can deceive and no glamour can mislead. The 
real man is discovered, his worth is impartially weighed, his rank 
is irreversibly decreed. 

With this picture in mind, with an intimate knowledge 
of his attainments, his ability, his ripe judgment, and his 



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industry, I know, Mr. Speaker, that Mr. Malby had at- 
tained a high and an influential and a commanding 
position in this House. 

He was a man strong in his convictions. While I dif- 
fered with him upon political questions, I respected the 
sincerity with which he expressed his views and the 
earnest manner in which he advocated them. He was a 
strong man. He was not timid, neither was he offensive 
in his advocacy, but when convinced that his views were 
right, no fear of public clamor, no desire to avoid the 
difficulties that arose from standing in opposition to what 
seemed to be overwhelming public sentiment could sway 
him from his purpose. I recall distinctly that within a 
very brief time this House had under consideration a 
resolution designed to terminate the treaty with Russia. 
He was opposed to the resolution. I recall the calm, dis- 
passionate manner in which he expressed his belief that 
the resolution was unwise, unjustifiable, and unnecessary. 
Holding such convictions, regardless of the overwhelming 
sentiment of the country and the Congress, he alone re- 
corded himself in opposition to the resolution. Those 
who have served here know that it is not easy for men in 
public life to stand alone in opposition to measures which 
seem to have behind them the overwhelming sentiment of 
the country, and yet no characteristic is more essential 
and important in public men than that determination to 
register their views and to act in accordance with their 
convictions upon fundamental questions regardless of 
the opinions of others or of the effect upon themselves 
personally. 

In the work of the committee of which Mr. Malby was 
a member, and upon which I served with him, his services 
were invaluable. It is a committee, Mr. Speaker, wherein 
the services of men are not so showily done as to attract 



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the attention of the public. It is a work of monotony 
and drudgery, and yet he brought to that work his great 
equipment, his wide information, his painstaking efforts, 
and his sound judgment, all of which made him invalu- 
able. In his death this House lost a distinguished, a valu- 
able, and an important Member; the country a useful 
public servant; his friends one whose open and warm 
heart was ever ready to respond to every application 
made for help; and his family a most loving, a most kind, 
a most thoughtful and considerate husband and parent. 
His memory will linger long enshrined in the hearts of 
those who knew and loved him best. 

[Mr. Fitzgerald at this point resumed the chair as 
Speaker pro tempore. | 

Mr. Merritt. Mr. Speaker, I desire to ask unanimous 
consent to include in the Record the proceedings of pub- 
lic memorial services held at Ogdensburg, N. Y., July 8, 
1912, the day before Mr. Malby's funeral. 

The Speaker pro tempore. The gentleman from New 
York [Mr. Merritt] asks unanimous consent to print as 
part of the proceedings of this day the addresses and 
proceedings of memorial services in the city of Ogdens- 
burg at the time of the death of Mr. Malby. Is there 
objection? [After a pause.] The Chair hears none, and 
it is so ordered. 

The proceedings appear on pages 31 to 57. 

The Speaker pro tempore. In accordance with the reso- 
lution previously adopted, the Chair declares the House 
adjourned until 12 o'clock to-morrow. 

Accordingly (at 12 o'clock and 47 minutes p. in.) the 
House adjourned to meet to-morrow, Monday, January 
27, 1913, at 12 o'clock noon. 



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Proceedings in the Senate 

Saturday, July 6, 1912. 
The Chaplain, Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, D. D., offered 
the following prayer: 

Almighty God, our heavenly Father, without whom not 
a sparrow falleth, Thou knowest how frail we are, Thou 
rememberest that we are dust. And it is not because we 
doubt Thy providence, our Father, that we grieve for the 
loss of a Member of this Congress, but because our hearts 
are made lonely, and because we are reminded of the 
uncertainty of all earthly things. In the midst of life 
we are in death. But naught can shake our trust in 
Thee, who art our refuge in distress and a very present 
help in trouble. Be with those, we pray Thee, to whom 
this sorrow is most sore. Give unto them beauty for 
ashes and the oil of joy for the spirit of heaviness. In 
all things uphold us by Thy spirit and comfort us with 
Thy presence. And unto Thee, our Father, who hast 
loved us with an everlasting love and hast called us into 
Thine eternal kingdom in Christ, be glory and praise on 
earth and in heaven, now and forevermore. Amen. 

Mr. Gallinger took the chair as President pro tempore 
under the order of the Senate of June 12, 1912. 

The Secretary proceeded to read the Journal of yester- 
day's proceedings when, on request of Mr. Smoot and by 
unanimous consent, the further reading was dispensed 
with and the Journal was approved. 

A message from the House of Representatives, by J. C. 
South, its Chief Clerk, communicated to the Senate the 



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intelligence of the death of Hon. George R. Malby, late 
a Representative from the State of New York, and trans- 
mitted resolutions of the House thereon. 

The President pro tempore. The Chair lays before the 
Senate resolutions of the House of Representatives, which 
will be read. 

The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows: 

In the House of Representatives. 

July 6, 1912. 

Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of 
the death of Hon. George R. Malby, a Representative from the 
State of New York. 

Resolved, That a committee of 15 Members of the House, with 
such Members of the Senate as may be joined, be appointed to 
attend the funeral. 

Resolved, That the Sergeant at Arms of the House be authorized 
and directed to take such steps as may be necessary for carrying 
out the provisions of these resolutions, and that the necessary 
expense in connection therewith be paid out of the contingent 
fund of the House. 

Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
Senate and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased. 

Resolved, That as a further mark of respect this House do now 
adjourn. 

Mr. Dillingham. Mr. President, the Senator from New 
York | Mr. Root] is necessarily absent from the Chamber 
this afternoon. At his request and in his name. I offer 
the resolutions which I send to the desk. 

The resolutions (S. Res. 353) were read, considered by 
unanimous consent, and unanimously agreed to, as 
follows: 

Resolved, That the Senate lias heard with deep sensibility the 
announcement of the death of Hon. GEORGE R. Malhy, late a Rep- 
resentative from (he State of New York. 

Resolved, That a committee of nine Senators be appointed by 
the President pro tempore to join the committee appointed on 



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the part of the House of Representatives to take order for super- 
intending the funeral of the deceased. 

Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to 
the House of Representatives and transmit a copy thereof to the 
family of the deceased. 

The President pro tempore appointed under the second 
resolution as the committee on the part of the Senate 
Mr. Root, Mr. O'Gorman, Mr. Burnham, Mr. Jones, Mr. 
Oliver, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Bryan, Mr. Thornton, and Mr. 
Martine of New Jersey. 

Mr. Dillingham. I now move, as a further mark of 
respect to the deceased, that the Senate take a recess 
until Monday morning at 11 o'clock. 

The motion was unanimously agreed to; and (at 5 
o'clock and 35 minutes p. m.) the Senate took a recess 
until Monday, July 8, 1912, at 11 o'clock a. m. 



Tuesday, January 28, 1913. 
A message from the House of Representatives, hy J. C. 
South, its Chief Clerk, announced that the House had 
passed resolutions commemorative of the life and puhlic 
services of Hon. George R. Malby, late a Representative 
from the State of New York. 



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Public Memorial Services 
at Ogdensburg, N. Y., July 8, 1912. 

Hon. George E. Van Kennen, mayor of the city of 
Ogdensburg. Will the house please come to order. We 
have assembled here to-night to mourn the loss of one 
of our most distinguished citizens. I have been asked to 
preside upon this sad occasion. 

I assume that many speeches of eulogy will be made 
here to-night. I suppose that none of us knew how great 
a man Congressman Malby was except those who saw 
him sitting among men whose names were household 
words in the land. I therefore move that the Chair ap- 
point a committee of three to draft suitable resolutions 
of memorial. 

Motion seconded. Carried. 

Mr. Van Kennen. I will appoint upon that committee 
Mr. R. E. Waterman, Dr. Fred Van Dusen, and Dr. W. B. 
Hanbidge. I suggest that these gentlemen retire and con- 
sider the memorial that may be offered to this meeting 
later. 

Ladies and gentlemen, while we are waiting for the 
report of this committee we have thought it proper to 
have a few remarks made by our citizens with reference 
to the death of Mr. Malby, and I shall now take the 
liberty of calling upon Mr. Thomas Spratt to say a few 
words concerning him. 



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Address of Mr. Thomas Spratt 

Mr. Chairman, Ladies, and Gentlemen : The death of 
Mr. Malby was a great shock, not only to this community 
but to the people of northern New York. To people 
generally Mr. Malby was enjoying his usual good health. 
We knew of the fact that he was attending to his duties 
in Congress, and that during the Republican convention 
which was held in Chicago he took a very important 
part in the councils of his party, and certainly it was 
like a bolt from a clear sky when it was announced in 
the various homes of the people here in Ogdensburg that 
he had passed to the unknown. 

Mr. Malby as a young man came up on the farm; from 
the farm to the school, from the school to the university, 
from the university to the practice of the law. In fact, 
Mr. Malby was a typical, ambitious young American. 
He practiced law for some years, and while living in 
Ogdensburg attending to the duties of that profession 
he became well acquainted with all of us, and that ac- 
quaintance became intimate in many instances, and to 
the bar of Ogdensburg he was always reckoned upon as 
one of the men that you could rely upon when it was 
necessary to make any extraordinary exertion. But it 
seemed as though fate had in store something other than 
the practice of the legal profession for Mr. Malby, be- 
cause after the late lamented Gen. Curtis decided to 
resign and ceased to be a candidate for the office of 
member of assembly, upon the meeting of the heads of 
the Republican Party of this district, although Mr. Malby 
was not anxious for the position himself, he became, 
with the consent and at the request of his friends, a can- 



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didatc for that office, and a very peculiar thing happened 
at that time. As I understand it, as I said before, Mr. 
Malby at that time was not anxious for this nomination. 
But the fact was that the men who represented another 
portion of the district urged his candidacy, and the advice 
was followed and Mr. Malby was nominated. The re- 
sponsibility of that nomination was laid upon the heads 
of the political leaders of the Republican Party at this 
end of the district, and the result was that a very excel- 
lent man at the other end of the district thought he had 
been wronged and that the people of Ogdensburg were 
rather inconsiderate, and many of us thought that when 
the courthouse was destroyed at Canton and an effort 
was made to bring it here by a number of our citizens 
we were unsuccessful by reason of a little resentment that 
was carried along; but the truth was that Mr. Malby was 
in no way to blame for any misunderstanding, and the 
nomination was really brought about by men outside of 
the city of Ogdensburg. However, Mr. Malby entered 
into the assembly; he remained there several years; he 
became the highest officer in that body; he was probably 
the strongest man there, and his nature, his mind, and his 
character are stamped upon the laws which were passed 
during the time that he was a member of that body, both 
as an ordinary member and as a leader of the house and 
as its speaker. 

I feel a great pleasure in knowing that in the early 
days of Mr. Malby's progress in the legislature our Demo- 
cratic friends had a great deal to do with giving him posi- 
tion. I remember very distinctly when Mr. Sheehan, who 
was the Democratic leader, had made up his committee 
and our friends thought that Mr. Malby ought to be put 
on the committee on ways and means, Mr. Sheehan said : 
" I will be very glad to help you, but the truth is that I 



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have made up my committee, and I do not see how I 
can give so important a position to so young a member." 
But, with the aid of our friends of the more southern 
portion of the State, he reversed his position, and Mr. 
Malby was placed upon that important committee, and 
it gave him a great opportunity to impress the people 
on that committee with the extent of the ability which 
he had, and we were all very much pleased, and espe- 
cially that it was one of the things that the Democrats 
in northern New York had performed. 

From the assembly he went to the senate. It is really 
unnecessary for me to recite what he accomplished there. 
He began at once to hold positions there on the most 
important committees. He was really the dominant fig- 
ure in the great Senate of the State of New York while 
he remained in that body, and after he was promoted 
to be a Member of Congress from this congressional dis- 
trict he took rank with the ablest men of the Nation. 
There was this about Mr. Malby — perhaps you have never 
thought about it: He was a wonderful man in becoming 
acquainted and mingling with the great men wherever 
he was called. He seemed to understand that it was ab- 
solutely necessary, in order to make progress, to get with 
the body of men who would stand up and be able to 
express their ideas and always have ideas. So we find 
him in the assembly, senate, and Congress. The result 
was that Mr. Malby, under Speaker Cannon, received 
recognition that no other new Member ever received in 
the House of Representatives. The good work he did 
there was appreciated by the Democrats, and at the time 
of his death no man stood higher in the House of Repre- 
sentatives than George R. Malby. 

Now, gentlemen, it is very easy to say this man has 
done that or the other man has done something else, but 



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it is a very important thing, a wonderful thing, to find a 
man that is not only able to perform the acts that come 
to him, but who can go out among men who are seek- 
ing to rise to the front or to positions of various kinds 
and to so control and manage affairs that his party will 
not be separated or disintegrated, but that it will follow 
the leader. Now, George R. Malby had that faculty to 
a great extent, which ability he showed in the Halls of 
Congress. He had great ability in keeping his party to- 
gether, in organizing his friends, in maintaining his party 
organization, and so he was not only a great legislator 
but he was a great statesman in the highest sense of the 
word. 

What is the value of such a life, or, rather, what is the 
loss to that community when such a man dies? You 
might say, as to the value, he was elected as a member 
of assembly and he performed well the duties of his office. 
He was made senator, and he never was found wanting. 
He was elevated to the Halls of Congress, and he found 
his place among men. He was a valuable man in that 
way. On the other hand, you might say that 55 years 
ago there were a great many thousand people in north- 
ern New York — a great many thousand residing here in 
this congressional district. Let your mind run back for 
50 years, those of you who are old enough, and scan the 
men who have lived and who have died and who are liv- 
ing now, and see how many George R. Malbys there are 
in northern New York now, and when you find how many 
there are you can tell somewhat of the greatness of this 
man and what this community has suffered by his death. 

I know there are other people who wish to speak of 
Mr. Malby, but I wish to call your attention to another 
side of Mr. Malby, and that was his kind-heartedness. 
He lived opposite to me for many years. I knew how 



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much he loved his children and his neighbor's children. 
There was nothing in the world that pleased Mr. Malby 
as much as to get the children of the neighborhood to- 
gether, especially on the Fourth of July, when he would 
surround himself with his own children and my children 
and Mr. Hannan's children, and the thing that he most 
enjoyed was to come under my window with the chil- 
dren and fire off those giant firecrackers and then hear 
how the fathers of the children took it. And I tell you 
the man who can bring children to him and to whom 
children will go has a great and a good heart. 

Mr. Malby was more than fortunate in his marriage. 
In the earlier days of his life it was a great benefit to 
him that he had in Mrs. Malby a true helpmate. She 
was a woman who was thoroughly devoted to her own 
household duties. She never allowed Mr. Malby to be 
worried by small matters of one kind and another when 
he came home from his legislative duties, and she loved 
her husband beyond anything I can describe, and he 
certainly was a kind and loving husband. There was 
no wish of hers that he did not grant if it were possible. 
He was a kind and loving father, a beautiful husband, 
a man to whom we can all look up and say George R. 
Malby was a truly representative man of northern New 
York. 

But he is gone, and what can we do for him? We can 
simply show by gathering together to-night our appre- 
ciation of his greatness and goodness. We can gather 
together to-morrow and close our places of business and 
be there present with his family and lay his body to rest 
on the shores of the Oswegatchie River which he loved 
so well. 

I wish to say that in the loss of Mr. Malby the State 
of New York has lost an able citizen, his district has lost 



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a good Representative, and the city has lost one of the 
best citizens it has ever produced, and certainly the 
vacancy which is caused by his death will long remain 
unfilled. 

Mr. Van Kennen. I would like to call upon Hon. John 
M. Kellogg with reference to the man whose career has 
been closed. 



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Address of Judge John M. Kellogg 

Mr. Chairman, Ladies, and Gentlemen: Congressman 
Malby was my dearest lifelong friend. It seems impos- 
sible that I can say anything here and it seems impossi- 
ble for me to remain silent. Speaking of the man, it 
seems that he and I came to this town about the same 
time. I was a practicing lawyer, he was a boy begin- 
ning his studies. We found ourselves in the office of 
Stillman Foote, I a practicing lawyer, he my law stu- 
dent. Our relations were close and confidential. We 
stood shoulder to shoulder for a period of 20 years. If 
an assault was made upon one, there were always two 
to answer the call. He was faithful and firm in his 
friendship, unswerving in his loyalty. When I became 
supreme court judge my relations as an active friend in 
politics with him ceased, but my interest in his career 
continued, our friendship remained, and I think the vari- 
ous successes thai have come to him in life furnished to 
me just as much satisfaction as they did to him. 

I speak of these things, first, because I can not help it; 
second, because it seems to me that I always knew the 
man and understood the man better than anybody else, 
aside from his own family, and I want to be on record 
as saying that that friendship has had an important bear- 
ing upon my life. His success in life did not arise from 
accident. It was from the inherent characteristics of the 
man himself. He was a great big man. A man abso- 
lutely self-reliant; honest to himself and friends; he 
acted upon his own judgment, and when lie made up his 
mind that a thing ought to be done lie did il. He had the 
courage of his convictions. A faithful, reliant man; hon- 



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est in all the relations of life; loyal to his constituents 
and his friends. With the great big mind and the fact 
that when he was serving the public he believed that the 
public business was his business, he familiarized himself 
with the business of the State and the Nation as a busi- 
ness man familiarizes himself with the details of his own 
business. These qualities — the greatness of his mind, 
the perseverance and push of the man, and the good 
nature and general goodness — made him what he was. 
It seems to me that George R. Malby stands as one of the 
greatest men that northern New York has known in our 
day. 

Mr. Van Kennen. I take the liberty of calling on Maj. 
William H. Daniels to say a few words with reference to 
the man who has brought nothing but honor to the section 
in which he lived. 



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Address of Maj. William H. Daniels 

Mr. Chairman, Ladies, and Gentlemen: I would much 
appreciate not having been called upon to-night, after 
having listened to the two speeches that have been made. 
Knowing George R. Malby as I knew him, he is entitled to 
all the praise that has been spoken in his behalf. I wish 
I could find words to tell of the strong friendship that 
existed between George R. Malby and myself. I wish 
that I could find words to really express the deep feeling 
that I have over his loss. Mr. Chairman, you know, and 
many others know, that for a long number of years I was 
closely allied with Mr. Malby in many ways, and I became 
well acquainted with him, and a strong friendship was 
formed between us, and it seemed that as year after year 
went by that friendship grew stronger and stronger. 

I do not feel like saying very much here to-night; I can 
not. Mr. Spratt spoke so nicely that, while I feel we have 
met with a severe loss, my thoughts go over to that other 
house where that dear wife and mother is sitting with 
her head bowed in grief, surrounded by her two children, 
for we know that their loss is irreparable, and our hearts 
go out to them. There are many things I would like to 
say, but I can not. It is hard to speak at all. George 
R. Malby and I were warm friends, friends for years, 
and as I look back I see the many pleasant hours that I 
have spent with him and I realize now that he lias gone. 
U strikes deeply into my heart, and I think I may say 
that outside of his family I doubt if there is another per- 
son in the city to-night to whom his death has brought a 
keener sorrow than it lias to me. 



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Address of Maj. William H. Daniels 

But I wish to read a telegram that I received from 
Bishop Conroy just previous to my coming here: 

Watertown, X. Y., July 8, 1912. 
Maj. W. H. Daniels, Ogdensburg, K. Y.: 

Permit me to share, by telegram, in the public expression of 
honor to our late lamented Congressman. George Malry was a 
big man in Ogdensburg, a bigger man in Albany, and bigger still 
in Washington; the abler his company and the broader his sphere, 
the more did his personal ability and broadness become manifest. 
His friend and fellow citizen, I regret him as a private and a 
public loss, and I lay upon his bier the tribute of my esteem, 
gratitude, and sorrow. To his bereaved family I tender my 
sincerest sympathy. 

J. H. Conroy. 

Mr. Van Kennen. I will call upon Mr. Fred J. Gray. 



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Address of Mr. Fred J. Gray 

Mr. Chairman, Ladies, and Gentlemen : The duty we 
are called upon to perform seems to be sad, yet it is 
entirely proper and fitting thai we step aside and pay a 
slight tribute of our love and respect for that beloved 
member of this community, that distinguished neighbor, 
that honored citizen. There can be no eulogy pro- 
nounced commensurate with the ability, energy, and 
devotion that he gave to his public services, with that 
great heart overflowing with kindness and love to all, 
with that charity which so characterized his life. 

It was my good fortune to study law in his office, to 
be his student. It was there I first learned of Mr. Malby. 
He made the most humble who came into his presence 
his equal. He was never conscious of his position in 
life. He was a natural leader of men, not by imperious 
command but by that kindness, that quality of his nature 
which attracted men to him, and they followed him 
without leading. 

As it has been said, he started in life in an humble posi- 
tion — from the farm to the humble schoolmaster. By 
tireless energy and devotion to duty he continued until 
he became a member of the bar. and he soon rose in the 
estimation of the people and the legal fraternity until 
he was considered one of the leaders of the bar of north- 
ern New York. His wise counsel and sound judgment 
brought to him a large clientage, hut later and very soon 
a wider field opened before him, and. ;is has been said 
here, he was called to the Legislature of the State of New 
York, and by the same tireless energy and devotion to 
duty he won liis way from place to place until he held 
almost every important position in the legislature of this 

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great Empire State. Not an important statute, during the 
long years of his service in the legislature, was placed on 
our books, hardly an important measure passed the legis- 
lature, that did not receive his approval. He was soon 
recognized in the legislature as one of the foremost and 
strongest minds, and was there given place. His counsel 
and advice were sought by men from all over the Empire 
State, and he became one of the strongest and ablest men 
in his party and in the State of New York. But soon 
again the field of opportunity widened, and notwithstand- 
ing" the deep regret that he had in leaving the associations, 
leaving the ties which bound him to the State of New York, 
leaving the many friendships and the place where he had 
worked so long and known so well, yet when this position 
was offered him and he accepted a place in the Congress 
of the United States the same tireless energy, the same 
devotion to duty, that same ability with which he had 
risen step by step through the Legislature of the State of 
New York, carried him upward and ever onward in the 
Halls of Congress, until he was known as, it has been said 
here to-night, one of the ablest and strongest legislators 
in the legislature of our country. 

But that was not the greatest thing that Senator Malby 
possessed. Not fame, honor, position, place, title, but 
kind words, kind and noble deeds survive. We who 
knew him best loved him most. He was happy when he 
was doing some person a kind act, and most unhappy 
when he was unable, by the influence of his position or 
otherwise, to grant the favor requested. That great heart 
went out in kindness and love to all. Sad, extremely sad, 
his death; untimely, extremely untimely. At noonday, 
in the meridian of life, with full power directing every 
energy in the discharge of his public duties, radiant with 
hope and ambition, he entered the dawn of the eternal 
morning. 



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The stricken and bereaved family have lost a devoted 
husband, a kind and loving father; this community a 
useful, valiant friend; this State a most able and honored 
son; this Nation a most wise and valiant counselor; and 
when we tenderly and lovingly lay him away and bid him 
our last farewell we can not but exclaim— 

The stately ships go on 

To their haven under the hill, 
But, oh, for the touch of a vanished hand 

And the sound of a voice that is still. 

Mr. Van Kennen. We have here present to-night Hon. 
E. C. Stewart, of Ithaca, who knew Senator Malby a great 
number of years and who was attracted to him by his 
genial personality and who has come this distance to 
unite with us in paying tribute to his memory. 



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Address of Mr. E. C. Stewart 

Mr. Mayor, Ladies, and Gentlemen: I am meeting with 
you to-night to express my deep sorrow at the loss which 
we have met. During my legislative experience, covering 
a period of 11 years, Senator Malby was my dearest friend 
and my closest adviser. I think few of us here to-night 
appreciate the loss which has come upon us. Much of 
his work for the State is yet to develop. We of the 
southern tier, or southern portion of the State, appreciate 
particularly the great act which he performed in the inter- 
est of agriculture in establishing the State College of 
Agriculture. We know that, had it not been for his 
efforts, that great act never would have become a law. 
My first visit to your city was as the guest of Senator 
Malby at the time the location for your State armory was 
selected. That, friends, is a period of nearly 20 years ago. 
I have in the meantime been his guest in your beautiful 
city. 

It is needless for me to try to express to you how much 
I shall miss him and how I enjoyed his friendship. 

Words fail me, friends, upon this occasion to fully ex- 
press myself. 

Mr. Van Kennen. I desire to call upon Mr. M. R. Sackett 
to say a word with reference to Senator Malby. 



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Address of Mr. M. R. Sackett 

Mr. Chairman, Ladies, and Gentlemen : I would be very 
glad to lay a wreath of equal beauty with those already 
placed upon the bier of our dead friend. 

I recall, as it were yesterday, the first time I ever saw 
George R. Malby. Some of you remember, along in the 
later eighties, when the district convention of the first 
district of this county was always held in Gouverneur, 
that there was a sharp judicial controversy in this county. 
In this convention there was a difference of opinion be- 
tween the leaders from Ogdensburg and Gouverneur. By 
the way, I think there always was a difference of opinion 
between the leaders of these two communities. Hon. 
George M. Gleason, whom you all remember who have 
been at all familiar with political affairs for the last 
25 years, led one part of that convention, and this young 
stripling from Ogdensburg led the other. I was there as 
an interested spectator. I had never seen the young man 
before to my knowledge. I was particularly struck with 
his presence, with his manner of putting the question, 
with his debate with Mr. Gleason touching the various 
points in the controversy. 

Not many years after that I was present in Gouverneur 
in the old Grand Army Hall when this same young man 
asked this district for the nomination to the legislature. 
He defeated two townsmen of Gouverneur, Hon. Daniel 
Rich, who had the town of Fowler, I think, and Hon. 
Newton Aldrich. I remember very distinctly that I was 
exceedingly glad on that occasion of the defeat of my 
townsmen, and as Judge Kellogg has well said, it turned 
out a magnificent thing for the first district of St. Law- 



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rence and for the entire section of northern New York, 
and when I heard of the death of our distinguished friend 
it seemed as if everything had gone to pieces pretty much. 

During these 25 years which have gone I came to know 
Mr. Malby in the many phases of his character, puhlic 
and private. He became known to me. I think he 
trusted me. I think he valued my friendship. I cer- 
tainly valued his, and there is no one that I know of in 
the world outside of my immediate family whom I can 
say was a better friend to me than was he. Dead at 55. 
His work all done. We were about the same age. Our 
tastes were alike in many respects. Dead at 55, and you 
say untimely. You say, what a short life. True it was 
short as we measure things; but when you think of the 
nonagenarians who have died, who have breathed and 
breathed and breathed, and then think of their lives, I 
tell you George R. Malby, measured by that standard, has 
lived. It is not given to every man, it is only given to one 
now and then, to put himself into the innermost love of 
a people, of a community, and make them all mourners 
when he departs. 

I wonder if you have thought, Mr. President, ladies, and 
gentlemen, of the wreck and ruin in the lives of our noted 
men in the past 25 years. I recall in Gouverneur George 
M. Gleason, Newton M. Aldrich, Dr. McFalls; over in 
Potsdam there was that man whom you would think would 
live forever, Senator Erwin, John Mclntyre, Judge Tap- 
pan; over in Canton the scholarly Russell, John Keeler, 
D. M. Robertson; here in your own city, Charles A. Kel- 
logg, Newton M. Curtis, and now George R. Malby. Truly, 
friends, there have been giants in St. Lawrence County. 
I have read about Silas Wright, Preston King, and Calvin 
T. Hurlbut. I knew A. X. Parker exceedingly well; I 
knew Judge Russell ; I knew exceedingly well Mr. Littauer. 
These have all been Members of Congress representing 



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this district, but I tell you I believe when we go far enough 
away from this day so that the perspective of history will 
tell the truth, George R. Malby will stand out the peer of 
everj r one. 

The other day, and it was only the other day, I came 
over the river to see him. I went up to his office over 
there; went in the back door, into the back room; shut 
the door and stayed there an hour, and we talked and 
talked and talked, as friends will talk, and he told me a 
number of things, and he seemed so well and he looked 
so well and he looked so hearty and so healthy and so 
strong, and I remarked all of these things. Just the other 
day the news came that he was dead. On his way home to 
see us all, to see his home and his wife, and his children; 
died there in that hot hotel in that great city, all alone. 
And it seems so pitiful and so horrible and so sorrowful. 
That strong man with so many friends over all the State 
and Nation, and not one there to bring a cup of water or 
to hold his hand or to wipe away the death dew as he met 
the Destroyer. Alone! Alone! 

George R. Malby was endowed with courage, and you 
who knew him, and I, can well believe that in that room 
there was no fear, no terror, except perchance that mere 
physical fear and terror which may come, but that great 
heart knew no terror. The lesson of this life has been told 
in fitting words. It ought to be an inspiration, particularly 
to the young men of St. Lawrence County. Typical 
American boy; born poor; born in the fresh air which is 
good; rising above obstacles, winning friends and honors. 
A marvelous career. A marvelous life. The country is 
richer for it. Youth is better, manhood is better, citizen- 
ship is better because George R. Malby lived and worked. 
We sorrow and have a right to sorrow. Great lessons 
remain, and it is for us to learn the lessons which have 
been pointed out to us by wiser heads than mine; lessons 

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which we must not throw away. American life is speeded 
up so high, we work so fast, we hurry, and the machinery 
of a physical frame that ought to run for years is speeded 
up until it breaks; so with our friend. 

Mr. Van Kennen. I take the liberty of calling upon Hon. 
E. A. Merritt, jr., of Potsdam, who has known Congress- 
man Malby for many years and has known how loyal he 
has always been to the cause he advocated. 



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Mr. Chairman, Ladies, and Gentlemen : It is with a great 
deal of hesitation that I undertake to say anything. We 
are here, I take it, as the friends of Mr. Malby. No more 
severe shock can come to this community or to this county 
than his unexpected departure. I can give no reason for 
it, no explanation. We must bear our loss with such 
fortitude as we can, with such fortitude as George Malby 
would have borne a similar shock. 

I have known him in his public capacity and in his pri- 
vate life for many years. I owe him many kindnesses. 
I loved him. What can one say on such an occasion as 
this? All men fear death as children fear the dark, and 
yet it is the commonest thing in life, the commonest thing 
that we see; much less mysterious to me or my thought 
than life itself; explained in a thousand ways; a mys- 
tery; well, perhaps a mystery because we know not what 
follows, but certainly simple in itself. 

For many years I have associated with Senator Malby 
in public affairs. We were, I think, able to work together 
in the interest of our county and of this great country here 
that we call the north country. Much of such success as 
I have been able to attain has been due to his assistance. 
I have helped, as far as I could, in doing the things that he 
thought worth while. I believe that this is not a time to 
adequately at all discuss his public career or his services 
to this county. It is too near the hour of his departure. 
It requires some reflection and thought to arrange and 
marshal the facts. No man has ever lived in our com- 
munity more typical of the ambitions, the labors, and the 
successes of the nun who came from our community, a 

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community which has changed but little since the first 
settlers came into this country and opened up the farms 
and settled them. Our people are now much the same as 
were their grandsires. There is some mixed blood in 
St. Lawrence County. Scotch and Irish and English and 
New Englander have made this county what it is; and of 
this mixture of blood and effort and service I think Mr. 
Malby was the highest type and represented in his life all 
the phases that go to make up the citizenship of the North. 
His labors here will be appreciated more and more. 

The friends whom he has loved will cherish his memory 
with greater tenderness and regard from year to year. 
Although he passed away at an early age as compared 
with some men who have lived to the utmost span, he had, 
as has been said, accomplished much. My own feeling 
has always been one not only of personal affection but of 
a very high regard for his stanclmess and courage. While 
it is a shock to think that when he passed he was alone, I 
do not believe that he was afraid. As men grow and live 
and suffer and succeed, he had no reason to be afraid. I 
know he never feared the face of any man, and I do not 
think he need fear anything else in heaven or on earth. 

Mr. Van Kennen. I venture to call upon Rev. A. M. 
Wight to say a word in reference to our esteemed friend, 
whose death has been such a distinct loss to the Nation, 
the State, and particularly to this north country. 



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Mr. Chairman, Ladies, and Gentlemen : It is not for me 
to speak of the man who calls together this audience here 
to-night as one who knew him in the halls of the legis- 
lature or of Congress or even in the legal profession, for 
I knew him not in any one of these particulars; but from 
my deep heart I wish to lay a tribute with the others that 
we have listened to to-night to him as a man. For 15 
years, going in and out and up and down our streets, I 
do not believe there was hardly one man in that walk 
and in the relationship, day by day, that so deeply im- 
pressed me as did that man. And I was thinking, while 
listening to these words of the men who had known him 
in the struggle of the political arena and known him so 
intimately in the citizenship of our city, of those words 
of Ralph Waldo Emerson — 

What you are speaks so loud, I can not hear what you say. 

There was a day, one year ago this month, that never 
will go out of my memory. Coming from my home on 
the West Side to the center of the city, and about crossing 
Ford Street where it intersects with State Street, I heard 
my name called, and I turned and it was the voice of 
Senator Malby. He said: "Are you busy for a moment 
this morning?" I said I was not, particularly. He said: 
"Let us take a little walk." And we took a little walk. 
We sat a little while on the veranda on this other corner, 
and there for a little while heart spoke to heart of the 
things that appertain to the other life. The honorable 
speaker that preceded me and others have intimated that 
George R. Mai.by was not afraid to die. I know he was 

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not, for he referred so tenderly to that scene when another 
gathering like this paid tribute to Gen. Curtis, and it was 
my privilege at that time, in the Presbyterian Church, to 
carry God's message of comfort to the sorrowing ones in 
prayer, and that man remembered the words of that 
prayer. And that is one thing I leave here to-night — the 
tribute to the man who was honest in his convictions and 
loyal to his principles. And I was reading this afternoon 
in Holy Writ of another gathering like unto this, and one 
said: "We shall miss him, for his seat will be vacant." 
George R. Malby's seat at Washington and in other gath- 
erings here in our city will be vacant in the days to come, 
but it is for us to be thankful that we did know him and 
that God let him live. And truly to-night the earth is 
poorer and heaven is richer, the one in losing and the 
other in receiving George R. Malby. 

Mr. Van Kennen. Refore calling for the report of the 
memorial committee I should like to ask if there is any- 
one else who would like to say a word in honor of our 
departed friend. I take the liberty of calling upon Col. 
Archie E. Raxter, of Elmira. 



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It has been truly said that nothing dies but that some- 
thing mourns. When the humble, obscure citizen falls 
by the way the household grieves; but when a man who 
has grown up in your midst from obscurity until he stood 
in the blazing limelight of publicity and known to all the 
world falls by the way the whole State mourns as the 
State of New York is buried in grief and is mourning 
bitterly for the death of George R. Malby to-night. 

When I heard, unexpectedly, of the great loss that had 
fallen upon this community, it seemed as if death had 
entered my own home; that I heard the rustle of the 
dark wings and the cold waft of the shadow of death in 
my own household. I knew and loved him well. 

I chanced to be in New York when it was decided that 
he was not to be returned as speaker of the assembly. 
It was at the time a crushing disappointment. He said 
to me: "Politics is an ungrateful business; I shall give it 
up." I said: " George, no; there is too much in you to be 
crushed by such a disappointment as this. There are 
great things ahead of you, but press forward manfully." 
And there were great things ahead of him — Senator, 
Congressman, adviser of governors and Senators in the 
United States Senate, Congressmen. Presidents even took 
counsel from him. He was, perhaps, as has been well 
said, the ablest man among the many able sons that that 
grand old county of St. Lawrence has ever given birth to. 

I shall not at this late hour trespass upon your atten- 
tion, and as my friend the speaker has well said, this is 
not the time or the hour to enter into any lengthy eulogies 
of the life and of the services of George R. Malby. That 



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time will come later. But in the meantime we can all 
fittingly join with minds and hearts in paying some faint 
tribute to one we all loved so well, and to-morrow, when 
we tenderly lay him away amongst the evergreens and 
flowers, it will rise up in every heart to say, " Farewell, 
farewell, friend ! May you rest in peace." 

MEMORIAL RESOLUTION 

Mr. Van Kennen. I take the liberty of calling upon the 
memorial committee to report. 

Mr. Waterman. Mr. Chairman and friends, I feel this 
occasion most deeply; and if in reading this memorial 
which your committee has prepared I should hesitate and 
falter, I hope that you will forgive me. I shall do the 
best I can. 

The people of the city of Ogdensburg, gathered together by 
common impulse to commemorate the life and deeds of a brave 
and faithful public servant, who for more than a generation truly 
represented them in the councils of State and Nation, thereby 
reflecting great credit upon himself and those whose interests he 
held in sacred trust, desiring to perpetuate their action, do render 
this 

TRIBUTE 

A great man has departed from among us; great in intellect; 
great in heart; great in all things that make for better conditions 
in the world; a lawyer and lawmaker of commanding ability; a 
statesman of rapidly increasing power and influence. In the 
pride of a splendid manhood, with a future looming large in the 
foreground, and a political horizon commensurate with his genius, 
George R. Malby surrendered his life to his duty on the conceded 
threshold of greater achievement. Born in the home town of 
Silas Wright, educated within sight of the grave of that illus- 
trious patriot, he early conceived those lofty ideals which molded 
his after life and conduct. Most men are ambitious. This man 
was no exception to the rule. Many seek to gratify their ambi- 
tions at the expense of others. This man never did. He scorned 
to rise upon the shoulders of other men. Rather would he put 

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his own shoulder at the service of some one less fortunate. His 
was one of those big, generous natures that love peace and order 
and harmony. But he could strike and strike hard in what he 
believed to be a righteous cause; and when he was aroused he 
moved with a dynamic directness and precision that crushed 
opposition. And he was independent in thought and action. He 
made this plain at the beginning of his public career at Albany, 
and later in the Halls of Congress at Washington it was abun- 
dantly demonstrated. There never was any indecision about him 
or any doubt about where he stood in matters of public concern. 
George R. Malby was born great. Whenever he appeared one 
knew intuitively that this was no ordinary man. His presence 
commanded immediate and respectful attention and brought to 
mind the lines of Sir Walter Scott: 

When as the palmer came in hall, 

Nor lord, nor knight, was there more tall, 

Or had a statelier step withal, 

Or looked more high or keen. 
Always serene, self-poised in victory and defeat alike, with 
unfaltering step he moved steadily onward and upward in the 
service of his people, knowing no distinction save only that of 
right and wrong. With him it was justice on the one side and 
injustice on the other. The line was sharply drawn. There was 
no middle ground of expediency or compromise. And he was 
modest. No man in public life used the first personal pronoun 
less frequently. It was his strong, forceful individuality, never 
self-assertive, that brought him to the fore in every enterprise in 
which he was engaged. 

The outside world knew him as the lawyer and statesman, and 
respected and honored him as such. We who are here assem- 
bled knew him as a friend and neighbor, and we loved him. 
He is gone. We shall never again clasp his hand or look into his 
kind and sympathetic face. But such nun do not die. They 
vanish in the concrete form, and that is all. One of his dis- 
tinguished predecessors in the councils of the Nation, the late 
William H. Seward, was fond of repeating the following lines of 
unknown origin : 

"There is no death; the stars go down 
To rise upon some fairer shore, 
And bright in heaven's jeweled crown 
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"There is no death; an angel form 

Walks o'er the earth with silent tread. 
He bears our best-loved things away, 
And then we call them dead. 

"Born into that undying life, 

They leave us but to come again; 
In all, in everything, the same, 
Except in grief and pain. 

" And ever near us, though unseen 
The dear immortal spirits tread, 
For all the boundless universe is life; 
There are no dead." 

So shall we think of him in loving remembrance, not as dead, 
but as living and breathing in his works, and in the shining 
example of faith and courage which he has left us, a rich herit- 
age for all the years to come. 

Mr. Van Kennen. Having heard the memorial resolu- 
tions, there being no objection thereto, I declare the same 
adopted. 

What is the further pleasure of the meeting? 

Mr. Spratt. I move that the meeting adjourn. 

Maj. Daniels. Second the motion. 

Mr. Van Kennen. It is moved and seconded that we 
adjourn. Carried. 



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